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SOTD Friday, March 4, 2011

5/8 Tiger Wedge, Hollow Point
Proraso Pre-Shave Cream
Taylor of Old Bond Street Shave Cream - St. James
Medium Badger
Dickinson's Witch Hazel
Nivea Replenishing ASB
British Sterling Cologne
Results: Slick, fragrant and buttery smooth!

Originally Posted by fonthunter

PREP:
RAZOR: Wacker Jubiläummesser Mod. 2

That is a gorgeous Wacker. The horn has a really good grain.

Robert-

Another Gorgeous shave of the day. The wood on brush and blade look great. I'm amazed at how consistently good you pictures are.

Thanks Doug! It's one of my favorites.
Cheers
fonti

This is the first time I used the straight razor first thing in the morning before I had to be somewhere (an interview). What a great way to start the day!

Pre-Shave: Shower
Brush: Vestavia 25mm Silver Tip
Razor: Boker Edelweiss 5/8 w/ bone scales
Strop: SRD 3" Premium I - 30/50 fabric/leather
Lather: TOBS Lavender soap, TOBS Lavender cream, glycerin
Toner: Thayer's Witch Hazel (Lavender)
After Shave: Castle Forbes Lavender
Cologne Splash: Lavender and Lime
Post-Interview Libation: Signatory label un-chillfiltered Highland Park 19 year old single sherry butt cask.

I am a big lavender fan and TOBS is one of my favorites; such a fresh scent. Had a clean shave done in a timely manner. An interview is a piece of cake after putting 3" of razor sharp steel to you face and coming away unscathed. Decided to uncork a special scotch to celebrate.

Friday

D.R Harris Marlborough SS/Semogue SOC badger/Parker 97R with Personna Mexican/Burberry Balsam/Burberry EDT

I'm saving my next shave for tomorrow morning there is nothing like kicking off the weekend with a good morning shave.

But I must say that is one H@ll of a collection of razors posted in the last 24, beautiful just beautiful. See you gents in the morning.

Originally Posted by metalfab

But I must say that is one H@ll of a collection of razors posted in the last 24, beautiful just beautiful.

I'll second that. It's been a great week of SOTD's. Thanks to all.

Originally Posted by eTom

By my mind: If you have brushes with the same dimension you'll not feel a difference. But I really favorizes Silvertips. For travelling I'll use in the future only the new synthetic.

I hear you Tom...Do you think all synthetic brushes will be this high quality that I won't feel the difference or just Muhle? For traveling, it may be an interesting choice.

Originally Posted by Mikael

They where very forseeing back then, they even named a razor after you

LOL, LOL

Originally Posted by Mikael

Sounds and looks like a super shave! That brush handle looks like a million $, very nice!

Thank you monsieur. It really handles very very well...very easy on the wrists.

Originally Posted by LegalBeagle

Of course, the credit goes to Glen, who did the restore! Robert, glad the scent worked for you. I am sorry, though, that you had the lather caving on itself. I can't explain that one. In the end it sounds like you still got a great shave, so Congratulations! BTW, terrific shot and the brush looks great!

Bill-san,
Glen does great work. As for the lather: I've had that happen to me a few times with the CarrieM cremes. It depends what kind of soap it gets mixed with and moreover, it's just a matter of getting the right ratio of water/creme/air. This AM, I was a bit more interested in seeing how the scents complemented each other (and they did) than the lather quality, whose creation I approached more generically than specifically. The lather was actually very good once it was re-whipped in the scuttle during each pass, so no complaints.

Thanks for the kind words about the pict and brush

Originally Posted by Stroker

+1 To Bill's comments Robert! Thanks for the trial run and the great lab report. Sounds like the Ogallala scent and the CarrieM Bay Rum Scent compliment each other nicely. ARRRRGH, welcome to the Bay Rum Pirates Crew Matie!

ARRRRGH my friend. Thanks for the warm welcome. The scents complementarity is dead on. Match made in Heaven, I would say...I just have to watch out for the right ratio of water/soap/air. I was not too careful today. Although lather was neither here nor there. Nice and creamy, but a bit lacking in texture and elasticity (which I attribute to lack of moisture)

On a slightly different topic (still scent-related):
You know, the Indian Sandalwood (Cyril Salter) is one of my favorite scents right now (as far as pure EO scent goes). It is very different than other Sandalwoods and extremely intoxicating. I have heard that the QED Sandalwood is the closest as far as scent...so, that soap may be a great complement to the creme. The Bay Rum in today's experiment is not quite there, but given the trend, I can easily see it becoming one of top 5 scents very very soon. It's amazing how one's olfactory sense develops and changes over time.

Originally Posted by BullGoose

A/S: Acca Kappa White Moss Emulsion
I just received the Acca Kappa aftershave emulsion in yesterday's mail and I am very impressed. It is very soothing, not overly greasy and it has a mild pleasant scent. It now has a spot in the rotation.

Acca Kappa makes great (but relatively simple) AS and colognes. I do have 4 or 5 of the EdC and like them all to varying degrees. The White Moss is one that my wife likes (as do I), the blue Lavender is one she likes (but I dislike), The cedar we both like and the Hibiscus, we both like very much. Of course, there's the classic 1869, which one cannot go wrong with.

The hibiscus (specifically the Hibiscus sabdariffa which this AS/EdC is made of, i think) is an interesting one I got for one reason other than scent. This flower has not only antibacterial properties but is also known to lead to a reduction of systolic blood pressure (SBP) and to some extent DBP too. Application of this to the skin after a good shave will cool the surface of the skin by increasing blood flow to the epidermis and dilating the pores of the skin. Good stuff

Originally Posted by Stroker

5/8 Tiger Wedge, Hollow Point
Results: Slick, fragrant and buttery smooth!

That's a beautiful blade Bruce. I love this one

Originally Posted by KingOscar

Robert-Another Gorgeous shave of the day. The wood on brush and blade look great. I'm amazed at how consistently good you pictures are.

Thank you kindly sir.

Originally Posted by KingOscar

This is the first time I used the straight razor first thing in the morning before I had to be somewhere (an interview). What a great way to start the day!
Post-Interview Libation: Signatory label un-chillfiltered Highland Park 19 year old single sherry butt cask.

Doug,
I take it the interview went well?!!! Inquiring minds want to know. Which do you like better? First or second company?

Originally Posted by Teiste

D.R Harris Marlborough SS/Semogue SOC badger/Parker 97R with Personna Mexican/Burberry Balsam/Burberry EDT

FANTASTIC Teiste. I love DR Harris soaps. Top notch performers and hard to beat.

Originally Posted by BladeRunner001

Doug,
I take it the interview went well?!!! Inquiring minds want to know. Which do you like better? First or second company?

I think so, will have to wait until sometime next week to find out.

They are very different jobs, one is as a loan analyst for a bank the other is as a project manager for a telecom. Both paths are interesting to me and I've had a good impression with both companies. Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to have to make the difficult choice between them.

Thanks for the interest.

Originally Posted by KingOscar

(1) They are very different jobs, one is as a loan analyst for a bank the other is as a project manager for a telecom.

(2) Hopefully I'll be lucky enough to have to make the difficult choice between them.

(1) Wowwww...vastly different jobs. Which interests you more?
(2) That is a very good problem to have. I hope you get to choose